Life is too short to drink cheap beer.

[Ravenloft]

Enjoying an excellent local brew called fifth voyage. It's a coconut porter made by crackers brewery.

What's the last good beer any of you drank?

 

[Sinny]

Elysian Dragonstooth Stout.

 

[thør]

NorthCoast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout

 

[thør]

Silver Gulch Coldfoot Pilsner

 

[thør]

Denali Brewing Single Engine Red

 

[Que]

Samuel Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout out of England. A friend brought bottles by for a belated Christmas gift for us all. By coincidence (or perhaps because he heard me mention it) it is the same one I "wasted" in my big pot-o-chilli. Interesting side note, I could not taste that beer in the chilli at all when it was fresh. I froze a couple of quarts and when I thawed it, the note was there, and quite nice.

 

[Ravenloft]

I've seen the Russian imperial stout on the shelves and I've had one of the Samuel Smith brews before. Pretty sure it was a porter. I'm very partial to porters if you couldn't tell.

Rogue mocha porter
Fullers London porter
Greenbush distorter porter (stout/porter blend runs $1.90 a bottle and is 7.2 Abv)

I also really like innis and gunns beers, they have an oak barrel aged touch to them

So does dragons milk, but that runs about $4 a bottle and is something like 10 Abv.

The strangest beer I've hat yet though has to be oddside ales firefly (pale ale fermented with papaya and habeneros peppers.)

 

[smoothg103rd]

I drink Heineken.

 

[Rangudo]

I love finding a great beer, but there have been a few occasions when I've paid $9 for a six-pack of craft beer that was absolute swill.
The beer was probably great at the brewery but doesn't travel well.
One of the best beers I ever had was at a party at a tasting room of a microbrewery. Actually, there were three or four types on tap and all were spectacular.
Once the beer was bottled and left the property, though, it was undrinkable.
But I've strayed. Can't think of anything rare that I'd recommend, so I'll just keep track of the discoveries listed here and try one or two next time I get to a brew superstore.

 

[thør]

I'm reviewing the list of beers being served at the GABBWF this weekend.

Looking forward to trying a few new to me. Laurelwood Brewing Co's Santa's Woody barleywine looks interesting.

 

[ClarenceDarrow]

Coors Light . . . Dammit

 

[Ravenloft]

Heineken was my father's beer of choice, he passed away last month, so I gave it a try. Not my favorite, but it's going to forever be one of those beers I'll go to when I think about him.

Rangudo, you can keep it below $20 for a six pack of craft beer? I'm impressed. (Although that might be Why you're getting such swill.)

I've only found a barley wine once four years ago, I loved it, but I haven't found one since.

Let us know if you find any good ones Thor.

Corrs light pancake batter maybe.

 

[thør]

I've only found a barley wine once four years ago, I loved it, but I haven't found one since.

Let us know if you find any good ones Thor.

Program for the festival

 

[Rangudo]

Rangudo, you can keep it below $20 for a six pack of craft beer? I'm impressed. (Although that might be Why you're getting such swill.)

I'm sure I was in error on the terminology. The beer I was referring to probably isn't available out of state, but it's certainly not one of those small batch places.

 

[Mr Noone]

A pint of plain is your only man.

 

[duranman]

Warm British bitter the best..

 

[Tathagata]

Guinness

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I've been drinking Griffin Claw Norms Raggedy Ass Ipa lately. They're out of Rochester Hills Mi. Its a sweeter ipa.

I drink a lot of Founders and Bells as well.

 

[Lancecastor]

Most of that fashionable micro brewery piss is awful.

Hard to beat a Heineken or Stella, though amongst the newbs, Rickards Red is pretty dependable.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Budweiser, maybe a red stripe.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Meantime IPA is a lovely, complex, thirst-quenching beer. Great at any time except the very depths of winter.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I've got some killer pumpkin ales as well.

 

[Sinny]

Meantime IPA is a lovely, complex, thirst-quenching beer. Great at any time except the very depths of winter.

Most likely different in your corner of the globe, but I find most craft IPAs in America to be so overhopped, they are undrinkable. Rogue, Georgetown, Elysian and a few others get it right, but the vast majority of craft IPAs here suck donkey balls.

Barleywines and Belgian style brews (saissons, sours, et al) are what American craft brewers are finally producing (and doing swell at that). Thor, we have a few barleywine festivals in the Seattle area, check 'em out.

I. Am. So. Very. Tired. of every craft brewery making four IPAs each, and they all are just awful, overhopped hot messes.

 

[Ravenloft]

Glad I'm not the only on that thinks IPA's are crap, thank you Sinny.

I still seem to be alone on enjoying porters though. Bummer.

 

[thør]

Shared a bottle of Tactical Nuclear Penguin (Brewdog) with the kids one evening, last summer. An interesting try, but not a beer to drink a whole bottle of at one sitting.